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Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Conway cf1f6f98f2 Improvements to documentation of shared memory configuration under
FreeBSD. From Mark Kirkwood, editorializing by Neil Conway.
2005-02-10 05:14:58 +00:00
Neil Conway 280cae35aa Use now() rather than 'now' in an example in the PL/PgSQL docs. From David
Fetter and Ben Calvert.
2005-02-10 05:01:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8f5b4c8c8c Update pginstaller URL to http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/.
Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-02-10 04:52:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 38efdc8bc1 Spacing:
< *  Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
> * Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2005-02-08 03:23:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc95779679 It seems like most people don't want automatic failover so I am removing
the item:

< 	o Automatic failover
<
< 	  The proper solution to this will probably the use of a master/slave
< 	  replication solution like Sloney and a connection pooling tool like
< 	  pgpool.
<
2005-02-08 03:21:02 +00:00
Neil Conway c76ff4bc4e Better late than never: document that the GiST API changed in 8.0 in the
"incompatibilities" section of the release notes.
2005-02-06 22:31:50 +00:00
Tom Lane e507399790 Document array behavior for out-of-range subscripts. 2005-02-06 20:59:30 +00:00
Neil Conway ad893a361d Minor SGML improvements. 2005-02-03 07:12:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b3a7e987a1 Improve wording of to_char() change in 8.1:
The 8.1 release will remove the <function>to_char()</> function
      for intervals.
2005-02-02 18:16:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f69513df17 Update FAQ numbering. 2005-02-02 17:44:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 947ae56d80 Update RESET ALL items:
<   all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, etc.  This could be used
<   for connection pooling.  We could also change RESET ALL to have this
<   functionality.
>   all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, cursors, prepared
>   queries(?), currval()s, etc.  This could be used for connection pooling.
>   We could also change RESET ALL to have this functionality.
2005-02-02 17:26:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cde6056e34 Remove pgsql_tmp directory FAQ item. 2005-02-02 13:41:18 +00:00
Neil Conway 73f630500b Add support for temporary views, including documentation and regression
tests. Contributed by Koju Iijima, review from Neil Conway, Gavin Sherry
and Tom Lane.

Also, fix error in description of WITH CHECK OPTION clause in the CREATE
VIEW reference page: it should be "CASCADED", not "CASCADE".
2005-02-02 06:36:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 48522fd30d Add Josh's performance page. 2005-02-01 21:11:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 68b0e29800 Add FETCH/MOVE:
< * Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8
> * Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2005-02-01 04:56:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb14d8becf Add:
> * Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be inherited by objects based on
>   schema permissions
2005-02-01 04:54:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4f63cc6a30 Final FAQ cleanups to remove information about very old releases. 2005-02-01 02:40:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3c16965995 Remove outer join simulation using UNION now that we have had outer
joins for quite a long time.
2005-02-01 02:35:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2de7ebe910 Remove FAQ about database terms. 2005-02-01 02:31:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2ccf79a6a1 Remove FAQ mention of DROP column. 2005-02-01 01:41:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 25deba3141 Update LIMIT/FETCH FAQ item. 2005-02-01 01:36:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 14f5c84589 Update connections FAQ item. 2005-02-01 00:19:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0c86f0e174 Fix markup typo. 2005-01-31 22:59:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1b2ebc591c Update debeug FAQ. 2005-01-31 22:58:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d96398d1eb Restructure debug FAQ entry. 2005-01-31 22:57:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1f7aa643b6 Reorganize FAQ entry on performance. 2005-01-31 20:40:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7069a885af Update admin tools FAQ. 2005-01-31 02:45:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2149b54f1c Update PHP mention. 2005-01-31 02:43:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd63e08f86 Remove "Support" FAQ item. We now have a tab on our web site. 2005-01-31 02:40:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18013e25c6 Wording improvement. 2005-01-31 02:19:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 131ff4e5cd Reorder support FAQ items. 2005-01-31 02:17:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 14f3fb610d Update section to mention developer's FAQ. 2005-01-31 02:09:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 83d8591081 Mention releases are every 10-12 months now. 2005-01-31 01:59:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e688443cbf Simplify FAQ item about obtaining support. 2005-01-31 01:53:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0a12c53385 Clarify license FAQ item. 2005-01-31 01:38:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 810b5072dd Modernize the FAQ item "What is PostgreSQL" to skip most historical
information.
2005-01-31 01:26:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 0c109c7187 Recommend security@postgresql.org as the contact point for security-related bugs. 2005-01-30 21:31:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 790c666931 Update FAQ text file. 2005-01-30 04:45:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 60d6f49a47 FAQ markup fixes. 2005-01-30 04:44:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 576853a79a Fix ampersand in URL. 2005-01-30 04:25:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d79f2d4036 Remove IN/slow FAQ item because it only applies to <=7.3.X. 2005-01-30 04:20:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bfc536217d Remove GEQO and Rtree FAQ items. 2005-01-30 04:16:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4c8a690d54 More index item rewording.kUpdate FAQ. 2005-01-30 04:06:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bbefccec09 Reword index/slow query item. 2005-01-30 04:05:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 97052bc9c9 Remove FAQ item about binary cursors. 2005-01-30 04:03:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e136a49c5d Remove FAQ items about IPC errors. We now report the help description
right in the failure.  We can always re-add it if required.
2005-01-30 04:00:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 93e1795404 Merge two Interfaces FAQ items into one. 2005-01-30 03:52:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a3b7d45807 Merge unix and non-unix platform faq items, and remove Y2K item. 2005-01-30 02:22:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 811df91340 Update OID item description. 2005-01-30 02:06:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 64428b8daf Preliminary release notes for 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9, 7.2.7. 2005-01-30 01:26:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 5703a69003 We haven't had a fixed limit on rule recursion depth since 7.3 ...
but the documentation still said so.
2005-01-29 23:45:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 750d9171f6 Add documentation for format_type(), which somehow escaped it before. 2005-01-28 23:12:59 +00:00
Tom Lane a9fec25df8 Add note cautioning that you can't use an encrypting IDENT server
with Postgres.
2005-01-28 22:38:37 +00:00
Tom Lane f07b9689c9 Generalize TRUNCATE to support truncating multiple tables in one
command.  This is useful because we can allow truncation of tables
referenced by foreign keys, so long as the referencing table is
truncated in the same command.

Alvaro Herrera
2005-01-27 03:19:37 +00:00
Tom Lane aba691b728 Close all cursors created during a failed subtransaction. This is needed
to avoid problems when a cursor depends on objects created or changed in
the same subtransaction.  We'd like to do better someday, but this seems
the only workable answer for 8.0.1.
2005-01-26 23:20:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 4de12d4470 Add docs for a couple of formerly-undocumented geometric conversion functions. 2005-01-26 20:42:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d08889aa8b Add tools/find_gt_lt to find < and > in SGML source.
Lowercase some uppercase tags so tools is more reliable at finding
problems.
2005-01-23 00:30:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 754b5e1c42 More < and > changes to ampersands.
8.0.X and HEAD.
2005-01-22 23:22:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ced129aa3 More < and > cleanups converted to ampersands. 2005-01-22 22:56:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9e292e3e48 More fixes for => and ->, use proper ampersand markups. 2005-01-22 22:31:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1e5eb160d1 Change -> and <- to use proper ampersand markups.
HEAD and 8.0.X.
2005-01-22 22:06:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b60a8512a0 Update count(*) discussion ideas:
<   BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves making this
>   BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves doing this
<   invalidated if anyone modifies the table.
<
>   invalidated if anyone modifies the table.  Another idea is to
>   get a count directly from a unique index, but for this to be
>   faster than a sequential scan it must avoid access to the heap
>   to obtain tuple visibility information.
>
> * Allow data to be pulled directly from indexes
>
>   Currently indexes do not have enough tuple tuple visibility
>   information to allow data to be pulled from the index without
>   also accessing the heap.  One way to allow this is to set a bit
>   to index tuples to indicate if a tuple is currently visible to
>   all transactions when the first valid heap lookup happens.  This
>   bit would have to be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
2005-01-22 20:05:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a73198ac17 Document that Rekall is GPL now. 2005-01-19 19:45:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0d19d8b846 Add:
> * Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
2005-01-19 14:17:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3fc86c0f47 Fix typo. 2005-01-19 03:13:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 31197bbdf5 Update version stamps for 8.1 as listed in RELEASE_CHANGES. 2005-01-18 05:00:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 0f6be37fcb Clarify that the --enable-integer-datetimes switch affects the time and
interval datatypes as well as timestamp.
2005-01-17 18:47:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian be105bd789 Please find enclosed another patch that now (I hope) really is
correct.  It's in addition to the previous patch.

David Fetter
2005-01-17 17:29:49 +00:00
Neil Conway 8a9cc26ee1 Fix minor thinko in pg_dump documentation of "-n" option. 2005-01-17 04:30:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 691bb1d247 Spelling fix. 2005-01-17 04:27:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6ea9da1ee0 Please find enclosed a patch to the pl/perl documents that correctly
tells what arguments go to pl/perl triggers.

David Fetter
2005-01-17 03:04:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 56d982b7d4 Mention ALTER COLUMN TYPE in FAQ. 2005-01-17 03:02:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5be1e13dd1 Update German FAQ.
Ian Barwick
2005-01-17 02:42:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d2136690a6 Update to 8.0.0 for packaging. 2005-01-17 02:40:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 637cf69b9d Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-17 02:29:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 9175d7df66 Some more copy-editing. 2005-01-17 01:29:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da10a47b39 Remove </a>
Alvaro
2005-01-15 22:51:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2d3746759d Update TORA item.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:44:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6987ca78db Update Brazilian FAQ.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:14:08 +00:00
Tom Lane a5645972af Some minor editing work on the release notes. 2005-01-15 21:11:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 0e3afb3277 Minor improvements in descriptions of recent changes. 2005-01-15 07:53:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 67c1fd1efd Update release notes for 8.0.0 final. Release date set as 2005-01-19! 2005-01-15 05:59:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0b72ebdc0c Merge query of system objects FAQ items. 2005-01-15 05:19:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 893c66de69 Simplify trigger example, per Mark Kirkwood. 2005-01-15 03:38:44 +00:00
Kris Jurka 2c1abfd979 Add index entries for function volatilities. 2005-01-14 21:46:09 +00:00
Tom Lane a294726bc1 Incorporate examples and doc patches from Mark Kirkwood and David Fetter. 2005-01-14 01:16:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 29e58330a6 Change Win32 client configuration files from *.txt to *.conf. 2005-01-14 00:25:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 145cc515f0 Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-13 21:13:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c2eef62c66 Update of Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2005-01-13 03:08:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 89b5cbe928 Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-10 09:01:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 35fde297c0 Small polishing of bug reporting template 2005-01-10 08:21:43 +00:00
Tom Lane ab3bb9cf78 Add some real documentation about TOAST (finally). Combine this with
the old 'page' chapter and the recently added 'filelayout' chapter to
make a coherent chapter about PostgreSQL's physical storage layout.
2005-01-10 00:04:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 0471cd5f62 Clarify description of greedy and non-greedy POSIX regular expressions,
per discussion in Nov 2004 with Ken Tanzer.
2005-01-09 20:08:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a9566cccca Update OS/2 URL. 2005-01-09 19:44:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 7da8623a56 Last batch of updates in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments. 2005-01-09 18:58:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 7bbdb078bd Update discussion of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-01-09 17:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane b548cde1f5 Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments. 2005-01-09 05:57:45 +00:00
Tom Lane b5adf46cbd Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments. 2005-01-08 22:13:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b19011e10c Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-08 09:54:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 6889537c48 Some small docs improvements motivated by reading the comments for the 7.4
7.4 interactive docs.
2005-01-08 05:19:18 +00:00